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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Damn, that is pretty cruel and heartless of you considering there are people who genuinely can not be vaccinated for medical reasons and you are advocating that they shouldn't be able to receive potentially life saving treatment and surgery.
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Triage sometimes requires what some people might call cruelty. However, in this case we are talking about a very limited and precious resource- a living, beating heart. The need for this organ always outweighs the availability. As such, decisions must be made on who can receive, and the top criteria should be who is most likely to successfully convalesce and heal as a result of the transplant, lest you waste the essential and limited resource.
This requires deprioritizing people who are less likely to successfully integrate the transplant, and sometimes this means discluding people with preexisting unrelated conditions that could also harm the organ and reduce chances of successful transplant.